OK; The original image as embedded alpha and the result shown is after I ran Cybia's Alphaworks filter and got placed back into GIMP (identical as before running the filter). The second version how it should be. I saved it while still in XNView. I have an idea why this is happening. Maybe if you can figure out how to paste it back in another layer besides the calling layer, you can get the proper result.

# Use temp file names from gimp, it reflects the user's choices in gimp.rc # change as indicated if you always want to use the same temp file name tempwinfile = "C:\\Windows\\Temp\\tempfile.png" tempfilename = "/home/rob/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp/tempfile.png"